RE: [iwar] News
From: Ed Tomlinson
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Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 22:38:33 -0400
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On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, you wrote:
> Ask yourself why popular antivirus software DOESN'T check for the years-old
> ".???.???" filename trick. How much effort does it take to look for two
> periods in the last eight characters of a filename? Only evil attachments use
> it. Checking for it would have saved the world (before the fact!) from
> ILoveYou, NewLove, and now Stages.
Guess again. Try something like: somename.tar.gz
This type of name is VERY common in the unix world.
Ed Tomlinson
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